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Opinion & Features

Building the next chapter of scientific competitiveness

Yan Bingyi looking out at the Cangshan mountains from the Seventeen Youth Retirement Home, a hostel catering to young people, China, April 2, 2025.
Global Enterprise

Jaded young Chinese reset lives with rural ‘retirement’

During Rome’s golden age, one set of laws governed a gigantic empire, markets were relatively free, and 400,000 km of roads sped goods from vessel to villa.
Opinion & Features

How golden ages really start – and end

The thinking embraced by Jamie (left), the boy at the heart of “Adolescence”, is part of a much wider grievance culture.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

Beyond Adolescence

Stay-at-home dad Chen Hualiang (right), his wife Mao Li (left), and children at their home in Shanghai, China, Aug 9, 2024
International

China’s ‘full-time dads’ challenge patriarchal norms

Scared of being "cancelled"? "Say The Right Thing" offers highly practical advice on how to negotiate difficult conversations involving gender, sexuality, race, social class, abilities and other sensitive issues.
Lifestyle
BOOKS

Navigating the woke world

Channel A's reality TV show "Living Together without Marriage" is filmed at a studio in Seoul, South Korea, Feb 24, 2023.
Lifestyle

South Korean romance reality shows boom, but marriage no longer the end game

In today's age of AI, the eerie central conceit of Pinocchio – the talking, walking puppet, lively yet not wholly alive, and the attendant issue of what makes a “real boy” – has never been more pressing or more provocative.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

Pinocchio is the hero of our time

Japan firm offers spouses apartments to avoid 'coronavirus divorce'
Lifestyle

Japan firm offers spouses apartments to avoid 'coronavirus divorce'

Digital technology can make a significant impact on healthcare
Columns

Digital technology can make a significant impact on healthcare

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